Today was the last day of a recovery week. My long run was only scheduled for a 1:30, about 11 miles give or take. I met up with Scott and Jim (two of my running buddies) at 7:00 at Barton Springs. We gave Dave the week off since he's in San Francisco on vacation with his family.
It was really humid with pretty much no breeze. The run was fine, though sweat abounded. We did the full Longhorn Dam loop taking about 1:40 to finish it including stoppage time. In general, it was a good run. My legs held out pretty well, though they got tired as time went on. I took a couple of GUs along the way (one at 45 mintes and the other around 1:15). Jim didn't send me the official splits, but he said we were averaging around 8:18 overall, which felt about right. They have a tendency to start out slow and then pick up the pace as things go along; I feel like I'm always at the back pulling them to slow down ;-)
I'm more tired this evening than I expected; somehow I don't seem to ever really get used to those 1.5+ hour runs.
Now the training really starts to ramp up. I've got a couple of pretty long runs this week (9 miles on Tuesday and a 50 minute tempo on Thursday) plus two hours on Sunday. At this point, my body is feeling pretty good and I've managed to stay injury free. So I hope that holds out!
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